The Major Prophets
The longer prophetic books: judgment, comfort, the coming Messiah, and God's plan for the nations.
Recommended Order
Study in any order. This path builds each topic on the one before it.
Isaiah is one prophet's message of judgment on a proud people and comfort for the humble, pointing from the Holy One of Israel to the Servant who bears our sins and the King who will reign.
Jeremiah is the weeping prophet who warned Judah for about forty years, saw Jerusalem fall, and carried God's promise of a New Covenant that forgives sin for good.
Lamentations is five poems of grief over the fallen city of Jerusalem, with a center of hope in the faithfulness and new mercies of the LORD.
Ezekiel is the priest-prophet among the exiles in Babylon who saw the glory of the LORD leave a corrupt temple, and who promised a new heart, a restored Israel, and the glory's return to a future temple.
Daniel is the sixth-century BC record of a faithful exile in Babylon and of visions that show the Most High ruling the kingdoms of men until the Son of man receives His everlasting kingdom.